Halloween costume idea: Bunker Donnie

For your 🎃 playlist when Halloween intersects too closely with reality and tries to ruin it. (Also, super pissed that most of the leaves are still green in the Midwest. Ruins the vibe.)

Well, they can’t do anything until Bobby gets out of the cesspool.

Investments. If it doesn’t gain monetary value in the future, it is *not* an investment. This term is a con used by sellers trying to get you to part ways with your money for something that will be worth only a few bucks at a garage sale the moment you toss the packaging.

“The epistemological structure of denialism. Not honest doubt but motivated reasoning. Not skepticism but refusal to update beliefs in response to evidence. Not objectivity but a framework constructed to make authoritarian escalation seem like ordinary politics.” open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.” <shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade> Vance spokesperson: No comment.

So someone noted that they had to block not just Rs that just appeared here, but also a lot of angry left people. It’s not a coincidence. The bots and trolls aren’t just working the Rs into a frenzy, they’re doing the same on the left. If we’re busy fighting ourselves, foreign powers win.

It's almost like they're trying to tell us something... ht: @magacultslayer.bsky.social

This song predates all of this, but this video encapsulates the past decade to a level it’s scary and it weirdly seems to strike a cord when arguments fall short. Monsters are still monsters no matter how tame they seem in the moment. m.youtube.com/watch?v=auzf...

Just for fun…

If Democratis had the power to shut down the government, then the Democrats would have already released the Trump-Epstein files.

The world’s falling apart. But Ohio State is still being Ohio State, and uh, the Browns are still being the Browns. Woof 😢

Woke up this morning thinking my day would be some chores and some football. Ending my day with the possible beginnings of WWIII and involuntary euthanasia because we all know homeless folks would just be the beginning.

“We can now point to specific heatwaves and say, ‘Saudi Aramco did this. ExxonMobil did this.’“ Study links oil giants' emissions directly to dozens of deadly heatwaves [via @theguardian.com]

3 years, 4 months, 1 week, 3 days, 8 hours, 17 minutes, and 57 seconds ▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 15.92%

MSNBC has no clue. No official briefing? They want narrative and spin, not answers. Will they now grow a heart like the Grinch? No. How many times do you have to see Republicans screw over their own, even themselves, before you get it?

News Media: Regime change is unlikely to result in a democratic Iran so this action doesn’t make sense. Well, duh. OMG. They don’t want democracy here, why would they be motivated by bringing about democracy in Iran? They want a friendly/patsy authoritarian government in Iran.

When R’s say they’re rebelling, what they’re really doing is asking for more political cover to support him. There was never any real intention to rebel.

I’m beyond sick of hearing about Biden’s decline like we’re pretending this even matters given the alternative. And no, Biden getting out late didn’t sabotage Harris. Everyone knew who he was and they still went with their bs excuses to vote for him anyhow.

Sending violent US citizens to El Salvador is also a set up and Dems need to tread carefully here. It’s all to make Dems look like we’re defending violent criminals which is always an election winner for them. Dems need to make the connection that this is a slippery slope to target all Americans.

This is it right here. If Trump doesn’t have to follow laws and the courts, no one else has to either. www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-...

Ohio wants corrupt coroners. Can’t imagine why. apple.news/Aw5Dil5AfQgi...

Too big to fail. If anything qualifies, it’s the US. Not a comfortable thought, but I don’t think the rest of the world has the luxury of standing by and letting us ruin it for everyone else. There’s too much on the line. What that would that look like, I don’t know.

We’re orcs now. Literal fucking orcs. youtu.be/wzaa-jHULLc

Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno said the quiet part out loud. The rich can buy it all up cheap if everything crashes.

Where are the DOGE savings going? I’d like see a daily chart of: 1. DOGE Savings 2. The Federal Deficit 3. Taxes paid by billionaires

I’m learning French not because I’d love to visit one day, but because soon I might trust Canadian and French reporting more than my own. I’m getting into better shape because maybe sooner rather than later, I’ll find myself grateful that I did.

Leaking war plans to journalists is the type of catastrophic incompetence I expected & it was why all of the hand-wringing over Biden being old drove me up the wall. This would have never, ever happened under Biden. If his health failed in office, it would have never, ever happened under Harris.

Keep saying OLIGARCHY. It’s a big word and hard to say. Republicans are right about the power of repetition. The great con on the right for the past half century is that by protecting the rich, they’re protecting themselves. Capitalism is on Main Street. But oligarchs are not Capitalists.

Don’t most old ladies have non-gender conforming haircuts?

War is a great way to hide what you don’t want the citizens to see. It’s also a great way to get citizens to give up their rights to the leader in exchange for “safety”.

Really disheartened that Dems still don’t get that a lot of the right’s backlash is as much about disrespectful and condescending tone as it is content. Some folks/cultures can’t handle change. You need to hold their hand through it and explain. Ask Ossoff & Warnock how they won. Ask Buttigieg.

You wonder why folks are discontent? Left: Don Draper’s kitchen in Mad Men as an ad exec in NYC in the 60s. Right: What’s presented to Americans as an average kitchen in tv, commercials, ads, and magazines.

Someone needs to start working a case up to the Supreme Court, any case at all, that maintains if the federal government and the President aren’t required to follow laws and court orders, then neither is anyone else.

We’ve all seen those horror movies where a group of idiot kids drunk on the idea of their own potential summons a demon from hell and in their hubris, are utterly convinced they will be able to control the demon. How’s that working out for you Mitch McConnell, John Roberts and the rest of you?

Wonder what he’s going to do while everyone’s rifling through JFK’s formerly classified assassination files?

But it’s better than a Democrat…

What we see on Main Street is Capitalism. What we see at the upper levels of our economy, the stock market, the CEOs, the mega corporations, the billionaires, is not capitalism in the slightest. So stop calling it that.

The ICE raids have a secondary purpose of developing a thug military. - Get rid of women because women are more likely to not want to abuse people - Desensitize them from going after Americans - Filter out those who object or are hesitant - Advance and attract those who embrace thuggery.

I think psychologists and psychiatrists would be better advisors to the Democrats than pollsters and politicians. What’s going on with the right is so beyond politics.

I’m shocked that Republicans seemed to have utterly failed to plan for any blow back. Then I remember that they’re a cult of “alpha males” who are really “thank you sir may I have I another” and it all makes sense.

Why would Canada be 1 state & why would Greenland be grafted onto Alaska? Greenland’s 57k would be swallowed by Alaska’s 740k. Canada’s 10 Provences being states would be 20 new Senators used to publicly funded healthcare. It’s not only a hostile takeover, but one with minimal representation.

Trump accused Trudeau of starting a trade war to stay in power so Trump is thinking about using the consequences of the trade wars to stay in power - because projection.

There will be just a little blip or whatever he said, trust the process. Translation: keep them quiet until it’s too late to do anything about it.

One might have noticed in passing that MAGA comes hardest not after their opposition, but their own who start to question. Might want to think twice about cheering that automatic death penalty for killing a cop thing.